New electronic sign at Westfall campus

A new $43,400 electronic sign is being constructed at the Westfall campus of Delaware Valley School District by Sign Here of Port Jervis, N.Y.

A new $43,400 electronic sign is being constructed at the Westfall campus of Delaware Valley School District by Sign Here of Port Jervis, N.Y.

The sign will be readable from both directions. The old sign was one-sided and had to be manually changed letter by letter. The new sign will allow the district to provide much more current information, Superintendent John Bell said.

The message will be changed from a computer, so there will be no more walking out in the snow to change letters. The sign should be finished by early May.

"With the tremendous amount of traffic on Route 209 daily, it is a great way to communicate with the public," Bell said.

Masonry work on the brick columns to hold the sign was being done Monday by Bob McLaren and Bruce Switzer of Custom Masonry by Switzer, of McAfee, N.J.